Reign of Terror
Reign of Terror (reissued as The Black Book) is a 1949 American film noir directed by Anthony Mann and starring Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart and Arlene Dahl. Robespierre, a powerful figure in the French Revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked by him for the guillotine and a key to help him eventually emerge as the country's dictator..